Today, the F.B.I. released 2,352 pages of classified documents pertaining to the personal and political activities of Ted Kennedy. The file has been posted on the Bureau’s “Hot Topics” Web page, ready for whatever amateur dramatic reenactments you wish to conduct. The Smoking Gun has uncovered the following: rumors of an orgy involving Ted Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis Jr. at the Carlyle Hotel; one Nixon staffer’s interest in then-deceased Mary Jo Kopechne’s possible affiliations with “a young hoodlum who is now behind bars for cashing hot checks”; and several death plots, one involving “a false Van Dyke beard,” psychics, and homosexuals. One piece of correspondence from an F.B.I. agent to Bureau director J. Edgar Hoover contains an ominous, if practical, request: “please make sure that Ted Kennedy gets all the protection he needs We are down to one Kennedy.”As we reported earlier, surviving family members had the opportunity to protest the release of any information they felt violated their privacy. The New York Times has parsed the thousands of documents and has found that there is “very little” related to Kopechne’s death in Chappaquiddick, and even a cursory look through the file reveals that many proper nouns have also been redacted.